A Singaporean can land in 192 countries without asking permission first. An Afghan can land in 23. That gap — the widest ever recorded in twenty years of tracking it — isn't really a story about travel. It's a story about which governments the rest of the world still trusts, and it's reshaping faster than most people checking their own ranking this week probably realize. Singapore is 1. The US just posted its third-biggest ranking decline in 20 years. The gap between the best